“What would my life, have been like, if I hadn't been put up for adoption? Who would my parents have been then? Or my parent, my mother?”
“It would have been perfect if my grandfather hadn't interrupted us.”
“A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other. ”
“If it wasn't for good," my mother says, "we human beings would have been wiped out a long time ago. Either the monsters would have gotten us or we would have killed each other off with greed and jealousy and anger. So we have to believe in good. We have to look for the good in ourselves.”
“My mother made a sound that from a lesser woman would have been a snort.”